Saturday, September 4, 2021

Lie Detector = Slot Machine (1952 comic)

Here is a precursor to the contemporary legend about how police trick a criminal into confessing by convincing him a photocopier is a lie detector. In “The Man and the Machine,” Crime Exposed, vol. 1, no. 8, January 1952, the “lie detector” is a slot machine. (Alas, no colander is involved.)


 

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